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		<title>What makes a church a church?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, more specifically, what makes a church MY church? I&#8217;ve always enjoyed visiting other churches during my travels. Reasons for choosing a particular church have ranged anywhere from, &#8220;I have to get on the road early, and this one has an early service,&#8221; to &#8220;This one is closer to the hotel than that one.&#8221; It&#8217;s a little different when you&#8217;ve moved to a new city and now you&#8217;re looking for a new &#8220;home.&#8221; It&#8217;s still been very enjoyable to scope out the religious environment (at least the Baptist environment) here; kind of like an extended vacation. But let me back up a bit. My first contact with Baptists of any sort was related in my &#8220;What&#8217;s Your Life Verse&#8221; post and the follow up. After going to the local Southern Baptist Church with Mr. G and his family for a while, I actually did make a profession of faith and was baptised. Unfortunately, while I might have been sincere about something or other, it certainly wasn&#8217;t about any desire to actually love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. After high school, I promptly told God to take a hike and would have done so sooner if I had been allowed to by my preacher folks. But there was something about that family so real that it has stuck with me to this day. (Side note: I caught up with Mr. G twice after high school. In 2004, as I sat down to dinner with he and his....]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a couple. First is Psalm 40:2-3 because that&#8217;s the story of what God through faith in Jesus Christ&#8217;s death and resurrection has done for me. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. My second is 1 John 3:2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. Here&#8217;s the story I submitted for the One Year Life Verse Devotional, which will be published next year. Check back to see if I&#8217;ll have my 15 minutes of fame. During my last two years of high school, I attended church with one of my high school teachers, Mr. G., and his family. Mr. G. would listen to my teenage troubles, and say &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry. You&#8217;ll get there.&#8221; After graduation, I joined the Navy and lost contact with Mr. G. for many years. During that time, I became an atheist and spent the next 18 years totally apart from God. But no matter how bad things seemed, I would always hear Mr. G. saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry. You&#8217;ll get there.&#8221; Sometimes that was the only hope....]]></description>
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